28Mar 2019 by Joost Mulder

2019

According to Joost Mulder, an independent Brussels-based public affairs specialist, MEPs today also decided that nuclear energy, coal-based electricity and “carbon lock-in” technologies would not be “stimulated” under the taxonomy. (more…)

24Apr 2018 by Joost Mulder

MEPs: Green finance good, sustainable finance better

News

As the European Commission is finalizing the last set of legislative proposals that can still be completed before the European Parliament elections, MEPs today adopted a non-legislative report in ECON calling for a more ambitious strategy on sustainable finance. MEPs support the criticism that the Commission's Action Plan on Financing Sustainable Growth is too narrowly focused on climate change and should support a wider European agenda on long-term sustainable financing of the European economy. (more…)

31Jan 2018 by Joost Mulder

HLEG Sustainable Finance – waiting for the Commission’s Action Plan

News, Opinion

Today, the EU High-Level Expert Group (HLEG) on Sustainable Finance published its final report. It's a key step but not the final one - the Commission's Action Plan on sustainable finance, due early March 2018, is where we will see which recommendations will be transformed into EU policy initiatives. The final HLEG report (PDF) published on 31 January 2018 widens the scope of sustainable finance beyond environment and climate change to social issues (although governance issues seem to be left out). (more…)

09Jun 2017 by Joost Mulder

Call for action – someone left the window of opportunity on green finance open

Opinion

Greening the Capital Markets Union This week's European Commission Capital Markets Union Mid-Term Review includes a new "priority action" dedicated to sustainable investment: The Commission will decide by Q1 2018 at the latest on the concrete follow-up that it will give to the recommendations of the High Level Expert Group on Sustainable Finance. (more…)